NOTES ON CONTINENTAL FORESTRY IN 1906. al 
Scotland, Ireland, or Wales should, to have a proper chance of 
success, be dealt with in a scientific manner likely to combine 
efficiency and economy, and not be rather jumped at hastily and 
without careful elaboration of a far-seeing scheme. It has only 
been by adopting careful scientific methods, and employing well- 
trained agents, that the above successful results have been 
_ obtained on the south-west coast of France. 
The Colonial Forest Departments in Algiers, Tunis, and Indo- 
China all show a net surplus for 1905, and the Algerian Service 
has been placed on a more favourable footing by a recent 
increase in pay. ‘The question of colonial forestry is apparently 
not neglected by the central Government even in the smaller 
colonies, because the Ministry of the Colonies has recently sent 
a “forest mission” to inquire into and report on the _ best 
measures that can be taken to protect the existing woodlands, 
and to study the question of planting in the Upper Niger, Upper 
Senegal, the Tchad, and other regions. These inquiries are 
expected to have important results on the climatic conditions 
and the regulation of the water-supply in the rivers throughout 
the territories to be visited. 
As in previous years, the results are published of investigations 
made into the diseases of fresh-water fishes, the inland waters 
being under the control of the Forest Department. The interests 
thus concerned are very important; and there can be little doubt 
that if any great national scheme of planting be adopted in the 
United Kingdom, the subject of inland fisheries will raise up 
many problems much more difficult to solve than those that 
have now there to be dealt with. 
The past year has added one new insect to the large number 
of those already classifiable as injurious. In the late summer of 
1904, about 15 acres of Scots pine near Embrun, in the Hautes- 
Alpes, were found to be infested in the foliage by a small moth, 
which was thought to be Leucaspis pint. But Dr Leonardi, the 
Italian entomologist, has ascertained that this is a new, though 
very closely allied species, and has named it Leucaspis affinis. 
Apparently, however, its attack has not spread, as no mention 
has yet been made of this during 1906. 
Among fungous diseases, Z7ichospheria parasitica has been 
doing a good deal of damage in some of the silver-fir woods on 
the Hautes Vosges. It appears to secure rather an easy foot- 
hold in that damp climate, and especially on hill-sides with a 
